Manuscript on the life and conquests of the Central Asian ruler Timur (1336-1405) by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻArabshāh (1392-1450), a versatile historian and traveler who wrote in Arabic, Persian and Turkish and was an eyewitness to the conquest of Timur to Bilād al-Shām (Greater Syria). He was born in Damascus, and fled with his family to Samarqand (Uzbekistan) and Mā Warāʻ al-Nahr (Transoxania), then moved to Edirne, Turkey where he was commissioned by the Ottoman Sultan to translate several books from Arabic into Persian and Turkish. He died in Cairo, Egypt. Copied from a copy which was copied from a copy copied from the author's copy by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-mulaqqab bi-Kamāl al-Shīrāzī on Sunday, 27 Rajab, 939 (22 February, 1533) in Adana, Turkey.
